Masih Madani has been studying housing development for the last four years. He said he wanted to build a project to help the large number of homeless people in the area.

"One of the issues I came across was the number of homeless out here," Madani said. "It was a significant number, and last year we had all that cold weather. I was quite surprised to see so many homeless, so I decided to do something about it."

Madani needed welding to help build the containers. So he enrolled in a welding class to learn the one skill he needed to build a home.

"Day after day, month after month, I welded," Madani said. "I learned how to do the one thing I didn't know how to do, which is cut and weld and work with steel."

Each container will cost around $25-50,000. He is building two prototypes. He needs help from Reno and Carson City to help finish his project.

"Right now I am looking for land, either through the city or through the county, to be able to put together a plan of action where we can produce hundreds of these," Madani said. "They are relatively easy to produce. We have it down to a science."